Howard wants anti-drug role models
24-February-2005, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
Michael Howard today called on celebrities to set a positive example for children by condemning drugs and backed the introduction of a minimum seven-year jail sentence for hard drug dealers on their third conviction.
The Tory leader said many ...
Study Tests Treatment of Cancer Patients with ...
23-February-2005, United States, NPR
A new study being conducted by Harvard researchers will examine how the psychedelic drug Ecstasy might help advanced-stage cancer patients suffering from anxiety. Melissa Block talks with principal investigator Dr. John Halpern of Harvard's McLean ...
The newest war on drugs
12-February-2005, United States, USNews.com
When Anne's grandmother was hospitalized two years ago with chest pains, she couldn't remember what medications she was on. So doctors sent Anne to the woman's home in eastern Washington State to look in her cabinets. What they found shocked both ...
Drugs in Canada
10-February-2005, Canada, The Economist
LITTLE by little, Canada is groping towards a distinctive approach to drugs, one that focuses on harm reduction rather than the repression favoured by the United States. The federal government is mulling over a bill to decriminalise possession of ...
Vancouver clinic offers free heroin in North ...
10-February-2005, Canada, CBC News
VANCOUVER - A clinic in Vancouver began recruiting heroin addicts to give them free drugs, as part of a national study that's the first of its kind in North America.
The North American Opiate Medication Initiative plans to enroll 470 ...
Canada has a radical plan for social costs of ...
07-February-2005, Canada, seattlepi.com
By MIKE LEWIS
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Gina R. is small and sick, 100 pounds of furtive need. Sitting in a coffee shop in East Downtown, her collar covers the abscess in her neck where a handful of times this day -- ...
We're rather sniffy about our drugs
06-February-2005, United Kingdom, Telegraph
by Oliver Pritchett
The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, said last week that he would pursue "middle-class drug users, the people who take cocaine at dinner parties and at the weekend". This is going to make dinner party ...
This foolish hard line on drugs
05-February-2005, United Kingdom, The Independent
The debate about drugs was rekindled this week. Sir Ian Blair, the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, set the tone on Tuesday with some ill-judged remarks about cocaine. He decided to use the first day of his new job to grab headlines with a ...
Crackdown on dinner party drugs
02-February-2005, United Kingdom, Guardian Unlimited
The new head of Scotland Yard took a swipe at London's white collar and celebrity drug culture yesterday by threatening to arrest weekend consumers of cocaine at dinner parties and in clubs and bars.
Sir Ian Blair, who took over as the UK's most ...
Medicare will cover Viagra, similar drugs
02-February-2005, United States, Startribune
Sexual performance drugs such as Viagra will be covered in Medicare's new prescription drug program, a lifestyle rather than lifesaving benefit that conservatives and watchdog groups say the government shouldn't provide.
Prescriptions for Viagra, ...
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